Thank you scalziand for keeping us up to date with photos of the site. I can see that things are going slowly there, so there doesn't seem to be much interest in this tower yet... but it's still nice to have you and your photo updates so it doesn't get lost entirely.

AS+GG is leading an interdisciplinary design team that also includes the structural engineering firm Thornton Tomasetti as well as PositivEnergy Practice, an energy services, engineering and consulting company. The other finalists in the design competition were the Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; HOK Architects; GMP Architects; and P&T Architects.

Not to sound condescending, but is China ever going to design its own supertalls?

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If all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed, if all records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth. -Orwell

Pretty simple, guys. Economies geared for totally different things. Service vs. manufacturing. We need both, and the fact that America and China don't both grind to a halt is a testament to the upside of globalism.

__________________The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth GalbraithWe must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere.Elie Wiesel